Teach reading comprehension skills and nonfiction text structures to your second-grade students!

Choose from 10 units that span a variety of text structures and topics or use them all!

Text structures include:

Question and answer
Main idea and details
Cause and effect
Compare and contrast
Time order

Illustrated nonfiction texts in the grade 2 book include a variety of content-area topics:

Science:

"Baby Blue Whale" Level I
"Big Machines" Level L

Geography:

"Big Island Map" Level K

Social Studies:

"TOMS Shoes" Level I
"Rosa Parks Rides the Bus" Level L
"What Does Congress Do?" Level M

Biography:

"Ben Franklin and the Glass Harmonica" Level J
"Thank You, Sarah Josepha Hale" Level K

How-to:

"Fun with Magnets" Level H

Technical:

"Help Wanted: Earth Engineer" Level M

Each unit includes:

Teacher support pages with a lesson plan and objective
A Teacher's Complex Text and a leveled student text with illustrations
A picture dictionary with content words and words to know
An illustrated close-reading activity
A comprehension and vocabulary activity
An oral close-reading activity with questions to help guide students in a discussion
A scaffolded writing activity that is used as a pre-writing exercise
A culminating text-based writing activity

Additional teacher resources

"How to Be a Good Reader" resource page for students
A reproducible reading journal for students
A student record sheet
Overview of texts that includes the reading level, the text structure, the topic, and the student objective
An answer key

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